working with ron emanuel and others leading democrats, harry reid and i had a conversation, senator mendez and i from new jersey had conversations, he offered his help. might senior senator from illinois, senator durbin on a deal where i would appoint the submit and whose father was my political nemesis but in exchange for that, yes there was a deal. the deal is a public works bill, and we support that, that would create jobs, 500,000 jobs -- speaking it was a quid pro quo. yet despite the belt that is .org at the senate appointment. >> testability ten prior to the appointment. >> braun -- rahm emanuel is the one that i wanted to negotiate a deal with the manikins because it's the rough-and-tumble kind of guy that knows how to get a good political deal done speech and he agreed to do that? tackiness talking and involved with us from the very beginning we had discussions, he spoke with my chief of staff, and was doing the right thing. he was trying to get a senator that they wanted, but he also is going to be part of the process that would put 500,000 people to work and expand health care t

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>> senator mÉndez. >> thank you, mr. chairman.i appreciate what senator nelson is trying to accomplish, and i do not think anyone of us once a hole -- wants a hole in the coverage. while he says this is not his purpose, there is a lot of talk that it would seem it is its purpose. i knowledge that he says it is not his purpose, but dual eligible beneficiaries and other low-income beneficiaries have no coverage gap, no coverage gap, and low copayments. so in essence, what we're doing is talking about taking that universe, and particularly as it relates to as we move them into part d and gave them the full benefits that they are, in fact, have no gap, that we move them out of medicaid, moved them into medicare part d, gave them the full benefit so that they would not have a gap, and going back and say we should now charging drug companies for what was previously that medicaid rebate and add that to the equation, and certainly, medicaid is certainly a much more stricter formulary than medicare part d, so this amendment, while is well

i believe senator mendez would like to speak on this. >> let me thank my colleague from york for offering a amendment that i co-sponsored with him. let me start off with that. sometimes i had members of congress ask me if they need a passport to go to puerto rico. i thought it was a joke when they ask me that. they were serious. they are united states citizens. if they are united states citizens. the flow that goes back and forth between states that -- its quite big. if they happen to them come to new jersey for an amount of time and maybe stayed, they would be eligible for what we are reviewing under this bill. if they move back to puerto rico, they are not. there are nearly 4 million united states citizens who reside in puerto rico. they pay the same medicare taxes as any other american in any state. in my book that is coming out, i talk about the 65th regiment infantry division of the korean war. all the puerto rican division was the most highly decorated in the history of united states. the good to the vietnam wall, most are of puerto rican descent. i feel they as well as all the terr

repter: still, rockeller's proposal found support from some fellow democrats like newersey's robert mendez. we are not talking about an entitlement, we are talking about a self sustaed, self financedntity th is fundamentally differt. so it's good to talk about medicare being aublicly run insurancprovision for those who qualifybecause of their age and otheronditions, but the boom line is that's far different than this. this is not a entitlement and therefore a mandate. >> the clerk wl call the role. >> reporr: but in the end, the rockefeller amendment faed 15- 8, with baus and 4 other decrats joining all 10 republicans on the committ. suorters of a public plan will have ather chance to bring the issue , and that's when the sete's health care reform bill comes to the flo for debate, someme in the next month. meanwhile th say, at least today'debate did one tng, it gauged the temperate on where everydy stands. as if underscore that point, new york democrat chars schumer offered a second plic option amendnt in the commite today, >> there's no queson that the publ option would imove this good bi

we do not know what it will look like, but yesterday senator rockefeller and others, senator men mendez, went after it. we are likely to see a lot of criticism from the right and left. that is the problem with health care. when you are trying to do a big huge gigantic change like this, you will get problems from anybody. bill: that is the pattern. all the way back to 1993, people that stick their noses out from under the covers get eviscerated. >> during the antebellum period during the civil war, particularly in 1850, there were decisions that need be made at congressional leaders realize that if they wrote them in individual pieces, there would be enough votes to pass the key. the same might be true here. most of the things in the bill could be passed, but only if they are standing alone. if the president said, for example, here is my thing on insurance reform. he is likely to get more if he bumbles it together. bill: but apparently this is not the way they're doing it. we could talk in circles all day. you still have two big problems, cost and the public option. my position, for mont

nos acompaÑa la vocera de la comisiÓn federal de comercio rosario mÉndez, le damos los buenos dÍas.rometen que le van a garantizar la paralizaciÓn del proceso de embargo, foreclosure como se dice en inglÉs, y esto es un problema porque nadie puede garantizar que se va a paralizar este proceso. le garantizan que va a entrar en una negociaciÓn con el banco para modificar el prÉstamo, y le hacen promesas exageradas, le dicen que van a entrar en una negociaciÓn en el banco de manera que van a pagar mucho menos de lque ericaáh@tjwaasnqm@ hipoteca si estuvieran alquilando, por ejemplo. a tambiÉn prometen que ellos van a hacerle el pago al banco, le dicen que no pague usted la hipoteca a su banco, p pa me lo mi yo le pago el pago al banco a su nombre como parte de la negociaciÓn. y lo que hacen en la mayorÍa de los casos es quedarse con el pago, y no hacen el pago al banco, entonces la persona termina perdiendo su casa porque el banco no recibiÓ ningÚn pago de la hipoteca. >> es importante lo que tÚ mencionabas de que existen alternativas lrgales. cuÁles son las alternativas que ellos pued

. >> estamos hablando de mujeres comoucÍa mÉndez... >> es una serie buenÍsima.rados con sus asientos de acuerdo a su edad o peso. >> las estadÍsticas son alarmantes, los accidentes automovilÍsticos en este país son la principal causa de muerte de niÑos de tres a seis aÑos y de ocho a 14. ¿son los asientos el problema principal? >> una de las razones principales por las cuales en el 2007 perdimos mÁs de 6500 niÑos hasta las edades de 14 aÑos fue debido a que los asientos no son colocados apropiadamente. el padre tiene que dar burlarse de la las instrucciones del manual del asiento, tambiÉn las instrucciones del carro y tambiÉn asegurarse que el asiento es el apropiado para la edad o peso del niÑo, ya que el asiento de seguridad, puede salvar la vida de un niÑo y tambiÉn evitar lesiones graves en un 60% si ha sido colocado apropiamente. >> ¿el cinturÓn de segékpad, h@despierta americah@h@tju[resÓ seguridad es el mecanismo en los automÓviles de esta Época que mÁs salva vidas. empecemos por los adultos, es importante que los adultos demuestren con su ejemplo lo que

mendez -- mr. menendez. >> no. >> mr. grassley. >> aye. >> mr. hatch. >> no. >> mr. roberts. >> aye. >> mr. enzi. >> aye. >> mr. chairman. >> no, by proxy. >> do you want to vote in person? >> mr. schumer, no. >> clerk will tally. >> the tally is 9 ayes and 14 nays. >> said the amendment fails. before i put the committee in recess -- so the amendment fails. i want to thank the staff behind us and before us for the overwhelming amount of nonstop work which they have done. we get to go home at night, they don't. this point needs to be made to the american public and needs to be made to all of us by then, because is sincere. the committee stands in recess until 9:30 a.m. tuesday morning. >> the senate finance committee continued work on chairman baucus' health care bill. any discussion of the public option, including the introduction of senator schumer's bill will be held next week. we have all the markup sessions at the health care hub. recent congressional hearings, speeches by the president and town hall meetings. and video ads and your health care comments. this c-s